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Nucleation and Grain Growth in Interstellar Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Bertram Donn
Bertram Donn*
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

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The First Detailed Studies to determine the processes by which interstellar grains may form were made by a group of Dutch astronomers in the 1940's. (See refs. 1 to 5.) Since that time very little systematic work on this problem has been done until very recently when Hoyle and Wickramasinghe (ref. 6) investigated graphite formation in cool stellar atmospheres. Van de Hulst's paper in 1949 (ref. 5) represents the culmination of an intensive attack which had considerable influence on astronomical thought about interstellar grains.

Somewhat ironically, beginning about 1949 many significant advances in physics and chemistry having a direct bearing on this problem were made. In 1949, Frank in reference 7 presented a theory which explained how real crystals tend to grow, and much work, both theoretical and experimental, has been done since then. (See ref. 8.) Recent extensive research in chemical reactions at low temperatures both in solids and on surfaces is reported in reference 9.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 7: Proper Motions , August 1965 , pp. 191 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer Academic Publishers 1965

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